Other Mars links

Frosty white water-ice clouds and swirling orange dust
storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal Mars as a
dynamic planet. In this Hubble snapshot, Mars is kicking up
plenty of dust. One large storm, for example, is churning
high above the northern polar cap (top of image).
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Second stop: No way out of these
storms

Other Jupiter links

What if storms on Earth lasted more than 70 years? Well,
they do on Jupiter. This photo reveals a cluster of three
white oval-shaped storms that lie southwest (at the bottom
of the planet) of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (dark
oval-shaped object near the planet's right edge). Two of
these storms formed in the late 1930s, and they're still
creating havoc on the planet.
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Third stop: Rings around a
planet

Other Saturn links

In this snapshot, Saturn looms like a giant flying saucer
in our outer solar system. The planet consists mostly of
gas. Its thin rings, only about 30 feet (10 meters) thick,
are made of dusty water and range in size from boulders to
small chunks.
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Fourth stop: A star on its way
out

Other Cat's Eye Nebula links

This photo shows the colorful end in the life of an
ordinary star. Although the star, dubbed the "Cat's Eye
Nebula," is on its way out, it is generating all sorts of
mayhem. Jets of high-speed gas. Collisions between gases.
These stellar "last gasps" are creating the glowing death
shroud surrounding the star.
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Fifth stop: Out of this
world

Other Eagle Nebula links

Undersea coral? Enchanted castles? Space serpents? These
eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of
cool hydrogen gas and dust that are incubators for new
stars. The pillars of material have a not-so-eerie name,
the Eagle Nebula. Searing radiation from nearby hot stars
is helping the newborn stars bust out of their stellar
nurseries.
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Sixth stop: Stellar temper
tantrum

Other Eta Carinae links

What happens when a star about 100 times heftier than our
Sun erupts? In the case of Eta Carinae, it becomes one of
the brightest stars in the southern sky. The outburst
occurred about 150 years ago, producing the bloated pair of
gas and dust clouds. The star survived the outburst. But it
may not survive another one.
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Seventh stop: A swarm of
stars

Other M80 links

This stellar colony, called M80, consists of hundreds of
thousands of stars, all held together by their mutual
gravitational attraction. M80 is one of the densest
globular star clusters in the Milky Way.
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What is beyond our Milky Way? Galaxies like NGC 1512 (see
top left galaxy in game's final screen). This barred spiral
galaxy is 30 million light-years from Earth, which is a
long way for a cow to travel. The galaxy's core is unique
for its stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant
star clusters. Spanning 70,000 light-years, NGC 1512 is
nearly as large as our own Milky Way.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has brought the universe into
view with far greater clarity than ever before. Since its
launch in 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery, Hubble
has confirmed the existence of black holes, refined our
knowledge of the age and size of the universe, and stared
back to nearly the dawn of time, revealing a jumble of
primordial galaxies.